BlueBeat stops selling Beatles music on their store
EMI has finally managed to stop BlueBeat from selling Beatles music on their store.
The company however still claims that they have the copyrights on these songs.
BlueBeat owner Hank Risan claims that these songs are his own creations as he recorded them using “psycho-acoustic simulations”!
A Los [...]

EMI files a lawsuit against Bluebeat.com
Bluebeat.com is in news these days as the company seems to be operating an illegal digital media store.
They are offering music tracks from almost all the major artists at very low prices.
One of the highlights is that they have on offer the entire catalog of The [...]

Global Gaming Factory close to signing deals with record labels?
Global Gaming Factory made news when they announced that they were going to acquire popular p2p site The Pirate Bay.
The company has now revealed that they are pretty close to signing a deal with a major record label.
Company chief executive Hans Pendaya said in a [...]

Project Playlist gets access to EMI Music
EMI Music and Project Playlist have announced that they have signed on a deal.
Project Playlist would now get access to EMI Music for their web based service.
Ronn Werre, president of EMI’s Music Services spoke about collaborating with Project Playlist: “Making our music available on a fan [...]

Apple launches iTunes Pass in collaboration with EMI
Apple has collaborated with media company EMI to launch a new way to purchase music. They call it iTunes Pass.
EMI announced that Depeche Mode would be the first band to be available for purchase through the iTunes Pass.
The two companies announced that the users signing up [...]

Reports: Sony Music Entertainment have renewed deal with YouTube
Market reports claim that Sony Music Entertainment has renewed their deal with Google owned video sharing service YouTube.
This deal would enable YouTube to continue hosting videos owned by Sony. This include artists like Beyonce and Avril Lavigne.
Warner Music Group is one of the major labels which has [...]

Music companies planning a YouTube rival
US based media giants have already launched Hulu which has become quite successful in challenging YouTube in this segment of the video sharing market.
Now, music companies are considering similar plans to launch a web service that would compete with Google owned YouTube service.
The Financial Times is reporting that the music [...]

Warner Music Group starts removing content from YouTube
Warner Music Group talks with YouTube about renewing their content licensing agreement have broken down.
This has resulted in Warner Music Group removing their media content currently hosted on the Google owned video sharing service.
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and EMI too are currently in renewed talks with YouTube [...]

SanDisk launches SlotMusic microSD cards
As promised SanDisk has now launched their SlotMusic microSD cards.
These memory cards comes loaded with music from popular musicians and can be loaded in any compatible device such as mobile phones and portable media players.
SanDisk is working with major music labels including Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner [...]

EMI and more labels part of Nokia Comes with Music
Nokia is hoping that their Comes with Music would become a formidable challenger to Apple iTunes.
The service would be offered with their new range of mobile phones. Customers of the phones would get one year of unlimited access to the music on the service.
After the period [...]